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US Surplus Butter Reaches Needy East Berlin Citizens
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keywords: cold war, west berlin, us surplus butter, humanitarian crisis
Synopsis: Needy German citizens from occupied Communist East Berlin slip across the border to Free West Berlin to wait in massive lines for surplus butter from US stocks - an International embarrassment to Communist Ideology and ended with the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 (2010-661f.txt)...(read more)
- Date: 1953
- Duration: 00:00:32
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: West Berlin
US Surplus Butter Reaches Needy East Berlin Citizens
In West Berlin, butter from surplus U.S. stocks is distributed to thousands of underfed and needy East Berliners who slip across the border from the Soviet sector.
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- Newsreels: 1953 - November 26
